Seattle, WA


Welcome to the Pacific Northwest Audio Society

The Pacific Northwest Audio Society has been dedicated to the exploration and enjoyment of fine music and electronics since its founding in 1978. Although the Society is based in the Seattle area, we serve the greater Pacific Northwest and draw enthusiasts from as far as Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. We meet each month for a new and exciting audio experience and our network includes many of the top experts in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.

We're a bunch of Audio enthusiasts with particular interest in "true to life" audio reproduction, who love to share our interests with each other: from our latest music or movie finds to the off-beat "look, I made a pair of speakers from a pair of tall-boys, plastic wrap and aluminum foil!"

Check out the Membership page for instructions on how to become a member. For about the price of a latte each month, you'll support the Audio Society and have access to a great audio experience each month and our ready-made network. If you’re in the area, be sure to join us for a meeting and see what the club is all about.
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(Seattle) Audio Society Meeting (Steve McCormack) Thur. March 8th

The next meeting of the Pacific Northwest Audio Society will be with Steve McCormack, of SMC Audio, this Thursday, March 8th.

Mark this into your calendar now.

Many members still remember the magical evening of music we had more than two years ago when Steve McCormack presented his Virtual Reality
Engine-1 preamp to the club and pretty much blew everyone away. By the end of the meeting, some members were proposing to spend entire treasury of the club to buy the VRE-1 from Steve! Good thing that cooler heads prevailed..... but we still long for that magical moment again. Our President, John Stone, would like to remind us (since he won't be at the
meeting) that we still don't have enough in the club treasury to buy the new VRE-1C.

Here's the chance. Steve is bringing his latest version, the VRE-1C for yet another presentation. This is the first time ever that a remote-controlled version of a preamp sounds better than the manual version using a stepped, discrete-resistor attenuator. Steve will tell us how he managed to do it at the Pacific Northwest Audio Society meeting, Thursday, March 8th.

In case you don't know who Steve McCormack is, he was the founder of McCormack Audio (since sold to Conrad Johnson), recorded and engineered some of the most sought after Direct Disc LPs ever made with M&K Real Time, founded the Mod Squad, and invented the Tiptoes.

Pacific Northwest Audio Society
7:30pm Thursday, March 8th 2012
Mercer Island Congregational Church (basement)
4545 Island Crest Way
Mercer Island, WA 98040
http://www.audiosociety.org

Visitors and guests are always welcome
Seattle-area Audiophiles...April 12th, 2012 - deHavilland Tubes, and Tapes all Night

Join us in April to meet Kara Chaffee and see her fabulous line of deHavilland HiFi tube gear. The evening will feature her Model 50A, 45 watt, triode-wired KT88 output stage, mono block amplifiers. She'll pair this with her UltraVerve 3 preamplifier features 100% hand wired point-to-point circuitry. It features the 6SN7 octal tube, and tube rectification using the 5AW4 / 5U4 rectifier.

To top it all off, Kara will also bring her Model 222 Vacuum Tube Magnetic Tape Playback Preamplifier, which we will pair with a reel-to-reel machine and reels from Bruce Brown's private stock at Puget Sound Studios.


Join the Pacific Northwest Audio Society on Thursday, June 14th at 7:30 for a meeting with renowned recording engineer Todd Garfinkle of Ma Recordings for a live recording of budding Seattle woodwind artist Benjamin Zobel. Todd will demonstrate and discuss his unique and innovative recording techniques.

Guests are welcome. For more information, visit www.audiosociety.org.